"There is no one as dangerous as he……" — Rebecca Solnit

"There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose."

— Rebecca Solnit

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127 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit has 127 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend…
The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other…
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE…
Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of…
Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall,…
For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that…
The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score.…
I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge…
Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's…
Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed…

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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Hey, I took karate when I was 17 years old; I am dangerous. — Michele Bachmann
Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour. — David Bailey
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or… — Abigail Adams
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent:… — Russell Baker
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. — James A. Baldwin
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and… — Edward Abbey
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. — Edward Abbey
I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm… — Antonio Banderas
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already. — Edward Abbey
Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat… — Neal Barnard

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